Some strikes landed close to central Beirut and near Christian neighborhoods and other targets where Israel had issued evacuation warnings.

Netflix has picked up Bad Boy, the Israeli series from original Euphoria creator Ron Leshem that is North Road’s first international co-pro. The streamer, which has a big library of Israeli content, will launch Bad Boy globally after its first run on Israeli network Hot early next year. The show launched on Hot this week. […]

Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Ron Leshem is best known for his work on Israeli TV series 'Euphoria', on which Sam Levinson based his HBO show.

BAD BOY Bad Boy, the new drama from Euphoria creator Ron Leshem, has been snapped up by Netflix internationally. Inspired by a true story, Bad Boy tells the story of a young man called Dean who is held in a cruel juvenile detention facility where he befriends a teenager imprisoned for murder. Twenty years later […]

District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Monday granted special counsel Jack Smith’s request to dismiss his election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump. Smith cited Justice Department policy as the reason. What are the terms of a proposed cease-fire deal with Israel and the terrorist group Hezbollah? And how will the United States tackle Middle East […]

More than 200 emergency and medical workers have been killed since last October, Lebanon's health ministry says. Many believe Israel's military is targeting them in its war against Hezbollah.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT >> President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron are expected to announce a ceasefire in Lebanon between the armed group Hezbollah and Israel imminently, four senior Lebanese sources said today.

Israel is reportedly poised to sign a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah that would pause hostilities for two months, remove fighting forces from both sides of the war-torn border, and deliver "significant relief from the arms embargo imposed by the U.S. on Israel."The post

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story US says ceasefire is imminent in Lebanon Israeli officials have also hinted that a 60-day temporary ceasefire could soon be reached with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. AP White House national security spokesperson John Kirby did...

We are close to a deal, the Israeli ambassador to theU.S.,Michael Herzog, told Israels Army Radio on Monday, adding that some final points still needed to be addressed. It could happen within days.

In a year where moral clarity in the fight against antisemitism and outspoken support of Israel was too often viewed as controversial, McCormicks bold approach was critical.

Israels security cabinet will consider a deal that could end fighting and push back Hezbollah.

The pro-settlement movement in Israel is exulting at what it perceives as a possible green light from the incoming Trump Middle East team to pursue annexation of the West Bank.

FIUGGI, Italy Foreign ministers from the worlds leading industrialized nations met Monday as signs emerged of progress on a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah and a certain pressure to advance diplomatic efforts in both the Mideast and Ukraine wars ahead of the new U.S. administration taking office.

Israel has mandatory military services for citizens over the age of eighteen that meet certain requirements, and refusing to serve, which has always been controversial is even more contentious now that the country is fighting in Gaza and Lebanon. We meet one young person choosing to go to jail rather than serve in the military. Support NPR and get sponsor-free episodes of State of the Wor...

After previous hopes for Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire were dashed, US officials warn that negotiations are not complete.

Marc Tracy, arts and culture reporter for the New York Times, for some reason wrote a 2,100-word news analysis, posted Sunday, on why Jews shouldnt use the word pogrom to describe assaults like the one in Amsterdam against people suspected of being Jews, after a soccer match by an Israeli team there: The Amsterdam Attacks and the Long Shadow of Pogroms -- Many have used an ...

For many Orthodox Jews who keep the sabbath, eat kosher, pray daily, and who have fallen in large numbers since the Oct. 7 attacks that pulled Israel into war, religion is among their motivations for service.

The Knessets ban on UNRWA puts humanitarian aid for Palestinians in jeopardy.